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PC Perspectivehttp://www.pcper.com/images/podcast-logo-600x600.pngenA Sapphire and platinum motherboard; gaudy or a work of art?http://www.pcper.com/news/Motherboards/Sapphire-and-platinum-motherboard-gaudy-or-work-art
<p>Sapphire has been busy making a name for themselves as a high end motherboard maker in addition to their graphics card models.&nbsp; The Sapphire Pure Platinum Z68 is their first foray into SandyBridge and comes with a long host of features common to the Z68 platform as well as features common to Sapphire's GPUs such as a dual BIOS.&nbsp; Hi Tech Legion had a great time overclocking with this board both manually and with the help of Sapphire's TriXXX software, getting a i5-2500K all the way to 4.74GHz.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.hitechlegion.com/reviews/motherboards/12351-sapphire-pure-platinum-z68-motherboard-review">Read on to see this impressive board in action</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>&quot;The Pure Platinum Z68 is the Sapphire's first entry for the Z68 chipset of Intel, which is capable of technologies such as Smart Response and Virtu. The Sapphire Pure Platinum Z68 includes 4 DIMM slots with support of up to 16GB of RAM with speeds of up to 1600+MHz. For network connectivity, the Sapphire Pure Platinum Z68 has a Marvell chip controlled Gigabit LAN port and wireless capability via a Bluetooth 2.1 receiver. Storage options are many in the Pure Platinum Z68, with 8 total SATA ports; 4 SATA II with RAID 0,1,5,10 and AHCI controlled by the Z68 chipset, while there are 2 SATA III ports also controlled by the Z68 and the last 2 are controlled by Marvell's controller. Peripherals on the Z68 Pure Platinum are 2 USB 3.0 with up to 12 total USB 2.0 ports (including the USB headers), with 4 on the rear panel.&quot;</p>
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<p>Longtime GPU&nbsp;partner Sapphire is taking advantage of the new AMD&nbsp;A75 Hudson-D3 FCH chipset to put out their new Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 motherboard.&nbsp; Onboard are five SATA3 ports, a single PCIe 16x, a single PCI 4x, two PCIe 1x, and two 32-bit PCI slots along with 7.1 sound from a Realtek ALC892 chip and a mini PCIe slot.&nbsp; Externally you will find four USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort, a LAN port and even Bluetooth.&nbsp; As far as budget boards for Llano go, <a href="http://www.hitechlegion.com/reviews/motherboards/11593-sapphire-pure-platinum-a75-motherboard-review">Hi Tech Legion have not seen better</a> and that was before they managed the 35% overclock.</p>
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<p>&quot;Sapphire has just released their venture into Llano with the Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard. The Platinum A75 offers all of the premium niceties that can be found with AMD's Lynx platform. First, there is the top tier A75 Hudson-D3 FCH chipset. This has an FM1 socket for the latest Llano APU chips. There is support for up to 16GB of 800/1033/1333/1600/1866 MHz speed DDR3 memory. This chipset offers exceptional connectivity as you get five SATA3 ports, one 16x PCI-E, two 1x PCI-E, one 4x PCI-E, two 32-bit PCI, and four USB 3.0 ports. Because the APU is a CPU/GPU combination, for video connectivity, there is an HDMI, DVI, and DisplayPort available.&quot;</p>
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